Mailable matter of envelopes



S. BENENATO MAILABLE MATTER OF ENVELOPES April 23, 1929.

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Invenfon 23, 1929. s. B ENENATO HAILABLE MATTER OF ENVELOPES Filed June18, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Apr. 23, 1929.

PATENT OFFICE.

I STELLA. BENENATO, OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA.

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Application filed June 18, 1924. semi Ho..720,88 1."

This invention relates to connecting means for mailable matter, such asenvelopes, paper riceptacles, postal cards, wrappers and the l' 'e.

An object of this invention is to provide an improved means oftemporarily connecting mailable matter over that shown in my issuedUnited States Patent numbered 1,453,616, and especially to provideagainst the accidental breaking of the connecting meansand theconsequent separation of the jolned articles, and to provide aconnecting means which is integral with the articles to be connected andwhich may be quickly, simply and easily formed in the making of thearticles themselves, and whereby the articles ma be stamped by dies inintegral form inclu ing the connectin means.

A further dbject of this invention is to provide a means whereby thegummed portions of the top flaps may be subsequently damped and theenvelopes sealed in one operation without possible interference ofsticking or gumming to the adjacent envelope, and in which each of thetop flaps is provided with an extra outer edge ungummed and which inoverlapping relation may be temporarily connected with the top flapsextended upward or downward. I A further object of this invention is toprovide for the arrangement of the envelopes in boxes and removablyconnecting together any given or desired number, makm insertions intoand stamping the envelopes iefore they are separated, and drawing thesame into a typewriter automatically by rotation of the platen orinsertion from an open or opening in a box.

With the foregoin and other objects in 0 view I have invented the deviceshown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a series of envelopes connectedtogether in accord with my invention,

Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the showing in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a perspective of the showing in Figure 2, with the flaps indifferent positions;

Figure 4 is a section at 4-4 of Figure 2;

Figure 5 is a section at 5-5 of Figure 7;

Figure 6 is a blank, from which one of the envelopes shown in Figs. 1,2, 3 and 4 is made;

Figure 7. is 'a plurality of envelopes of modified form, connected; andv Figure 8 is a blank from which the modification shown in Figure 7 ismade.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the severalviews and in the specification, in which, referring to Figure 6, Iprovide an envelope blank 2, having side flaps 3 and 4, a top flap 5,a'bottom flap 6, and tongues 7 and 8, extending from the flaps 6. Thetongues 7 and 8 are adapted to bend upon the dotted line 9 and also inalinement with the edge 10 of the flap 6, so that as shown particularlyin Figure 3, the flap 6 upon being bent upon the line 11, with the flaps3 and 4 bent over and sealing the flap in the form'of an envelope, theton es 7 and 8 bent upon the edge 10 of the ap 2 and being gummed on theunder side, are adhesively connected to the under side of the flap 2 asfar as the dotted line 9, leaving an adhesive fla between the dottedline 9 and the distant en of the tongue 8, whereby the envelope isconnected to the succeeding envelope. The flap 5 is provided with agummed area 12, and a nonadhesive area 13; the area 13 adapted tooverlap the succeedin fla 5 on the next envelope and serve as a s iel orprotection, but being ungummed so that it will not adhere to the nextenvelope and will only seal on the portion contacting the envelope towhich the flap belongs.

It is obvious in the operation of these onvelopes that they areintegrally joined together so that they 'form a substantially continuoussheet, whereby a t pist may without interchanging envelopes a ter theaddressing of each one continuously address the envelopes; and, further,whereby-with a sponge or ot er suitable means run over the under side ofthe sheet, the whole may be moistened for sealin and sealed within ashort. time.

In t e modification shown in Figures 7 and 8, I provide the set of flaps2, 3", 4 and 5, functioning similar respectively to the fla s 2, 3, 4and 5; and upon the flap 4 I provi e a lower gummed surface 14-, andalso provide at its terminal a tongue 15, the tongue 15 rovided at itslower ed e with a secon ary tongue 16, being provided with an adhesive,17 and the tongue 15 being provided with an angular tertiary tongue 18.,

In closin the envelope, the tongues 2, 3 and 4 are olded over inthe'usual manner, with the tertiary tongue 18 underlapping the tongue 3,and with the tongue 16 extending as shown in Figure 7, and its gummedsurface adhesively connected to the flap 5" of the next succeedingenvelope. The tongue 16 is preferabiy perforated at its root, as at 19,whereby the envelopes may be easily disconnected when desired.

Claims:

1. .An envelope consisting of a blank having a flap extending at theside of the blank,- the side flap provided with a air of tongue-likeextensions, a secondary ap adapted to cooperate with the first flap, oneof the tonguelike extensions adapted to engage the secondary flap, andthe other tongue-like extension adapted to be adhesively connected to asecondary envelope.

2. An envelope including a body member and a lurality of flaps struckout from a single s 1eet in the form of a unitary structure, one of saidflaps having a plurality oi": tongues projecting from one edge thereofto provide for the securing thereto of another envelope, one of saidtongues being gumrned on one side for securing the envelope to anotherand perforatcd to facilitate detachment of one onvelope from another,said envelope including a sealing flap adapted to overlie said tongueswhen in sealed position and having its free edge ungummed and adapted tooverlie said securing tongue be 0nd its perforated point to permit thedetaeiment of the tongue along said perforations.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.

STELLA BENENATO.

